Wednesday, January 12, 2011

BKB To The Rescue!

I fell in love with the yarn the moment I saw it....a beautiful variegated skein of Malabrigo Sock in what I can only describe as a pickle green. (Really, it's called Turner, but I insist it's pickle.) Add to that the perfect size 6 seed beads and one fantastic pattern - Electra by Rosemary Hill - and you get knitting magic.(Ok, the color is between the two pics...my camera just can't get it right, so you get two pictures.)

Of course, the problem was that I didn't thoroughly read the pattern before I bought the beads. I was so proud of myself for remembering to take the yarn with me to the bead store that I missed one fatal detail....the required yardage. At home, ready to cast on, I pulled out the pattern only to find that I was at least 60 yards short. A call (and a trip in case they were wrong) to the yarn shop dashed my hopes of being able to pick up a second skein.

Devastation galore.

Would you believe I was considering ordering two more skeins? I just could not let go of my plan to marry that yarn with those beads and that pattern!

Then I remembered something.

During a recent conversation, my BKB had told me about some yarn she had purchased. Now, this is actually a fairly common conversation....we just get so excited!....and usually I'm sure that the information goes in one ear and out another. However, I do remember that particular conversation because at the time I had found it very funny to hear how different her description of the color was from my own. In fact, I had been puzzled when she first described it because I had known what the store had in stock and it didn't sound like anything they had. I wasn't sure, but I thought....

So I called, and sure enough Jenn had a skein of Turner in the same dyelot! Yippee!

Long story short, my wonderful BKB went to the yarn store and picked out a new skein yesterday, which I am paying for, and is generously giving me her skein of Turner so that I can make the shawl of my dreams.